Enlarge me.  That is a powerful invocation. Enlarge me.  You know that this will involve some change, which you all resist.

 

 

What if you were to give up your resistance to change now? What if you were to see it as a shredded, gray old garment you had been clinging to all this time? As if to ward off some impending disaster, you have clung to this wretched garment through pelting storms.

Look at it, tattered and full of holes, thoroughly worthless for whatever purpose you wanted to put it to. It is as useless to you as the helplessness you transferred to it. Why not throw your resistance to change into the wastebasket now?

 

 

Resistance is only another name for fear, which goes by many names: anxiety, stress, nervousness, unease, disease, imbalance, disorder, on and on it goes. But it is all the same thing in the end: fear. Fear of what?  Can you identify your fears? Half the time you don’t even know.

 

 

The next time you find yourself feeling nervous, unhappy, or stressed, confront yourself.  Ask: fear of what? What am I so afraid of here? Invite it out into the open.  Subject it to the light of your attention. Contemplate this fear.  Thank it for becoming conscious to you, so that you can consciously dismiss it.

 

 

Enlarge me. For me to be larger, I would have to transcend this human perspective of being trapped in a body.  I must break out of the prison of the ego, starting now. Let me thwart the ego as often as possible. Let me see through its shallow tricks. Let me be impervious to whatever it offers me. All rewards, punishments, successes, failures, drama, movement and change, all are enticements offered by the ego to keep me stuck in superficialities.

 

Enlarge me